The battle to take the prestigious title of PERE’s Global Industry Figure of the Year is between three contenders: Jim Quille of MGPA, John Gray of Blackstone and John Grayken of Lone Star.
The polls for the third annual PERE awards opened just one week ago, and already the fight for a high-profile category (among dozens of other categories) is heating up: PERE can reveal that Quille, Gray and Grayken all are within 2 percentage points of one another.
However there’s no guarantee any of them will take the final honours when the voting closes at the beginning of February – Michael Pralle of JER Companies, Neel Kashkari of the US Troubled Asset Relief Programme and The Carlyle Group all only a few points behind the leaders to date.
More than 60 firms have been shortlisted as potential winners in the only industry awards nominated and voted on by private equity real estate professionals.
In Asia, MGPA finds itself doing battle with the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC Real Estate) to take the title of Asian PERE firm of the year, while in the European awards Niam and Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Street Real Estate Funds is fighting off competition from AIG European Real Estate Partners to clinch exit of the year.
Voting will close on 3 February, after which the results will be published simultaneously on PrivateEquityRealEstate.com and in the PERE magazine in March.
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